"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

Being, First, Sound

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

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"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."

"I hope you're representing the devil's advocate."

"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

"This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."

"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."